China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.